If you answered ‘yes’ to the above (and you know how to program), then Train Jam just might be for you.

The idea is simple: get on a train in Chicago, and in the 54 hours it takes you to get to San Francisco, program a video game from start to finish.

There’s not a lot of privacy on the train, nor is there a lot of showering. But for an up-and-coming game developer, there’s a ton of opportunity to work with seasoned veterans on anything from a balloon deathmatch simulator to a Pac-Man clone made with actual door springs.

Five years ago, there were only a few dozen takers. But this year, they’ve taken over the whole train, and even had to add a few extra cars to accommodate everyone.

VICE News hopped on an Amtrak to find out why people from 30 countries decided to cram together for America’s nerdiest train ride.

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17:17 Train Jam is a collection of 350 designers, artists, musicians, and coders traveling via Amtrak to the Game Developers Conference and creating games. They have only 52 hours to make a video game from scratch. Vice News joins them on one leg of their journey to watch as they make games.